Pensamiento visual contemporáneo

'Este libro suena: mientras navega por las aguas del río Magdalena, va recogiendo los cantares de la gente y los sones de las guitarras, las tamboras y los acordeones. En el altar de la música celebran su comunión las palabras y las imágenes. Estos textos y estas fotos de certera belleza eligen, así, la mejor manera de contar las desventuras de una región castigada por la pobreza, que en la música encuentra rescate y redención.' Eduardo Galeano.Incluye CD.

Exhibition highlights of the international photographic collection of the Foundation Televisa in Mexico with text by 81 prestigious writers. Each writer was given a copy of a photograph from the collection (from 1840-contemporary digital works) and asked to write an essay. Some of the photographers include: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Anton Bruehl, Robert Capa, Gisele Fruend, Graciela Itrubide, Alfred Stieglitz, Cindy Sherman, Tina Modotti. Some of the writers include: Dore Ahston, Amitav Ghosh, Alvaro Mutis, Hugh Thomas, Jorge Volpi, Mike Wallace, Elena Poniatowska.

Discusses how the people of Mexico honor their loved ones in death through the celebration of All Souls' Day.

"The birds, now immobile were organized in a scanner and converted into disturbing [photographic] images that maintain their vigorous splendor, sumptuous colors; the eternal presence of the beautiful "Duino Elegies" where poet Rainer Maria Rilke sings to the lethal birds of the soul and the beauty of the angels that announce their death are the inspirational reference for the artist"--Colophon. Includes short story "The man who spoke with birds" by Ethel Krauze.